Nervous watchman kills intruder

It occurred in the closing minutes of 2003, and while the year’s final killing may not result in a charge of murder, the victim is no less dead. He is forty-year-old Joaquin Ax Coc, a Guatemalan resident of the Stann Creek District. Ax was killed by a nervous watchman, fifty-eight year old Domingo Chun, who told police that around eleven-thirty while on duty at farm twenty-one near Independence Village, he heard a noise in the dark. When Chun called out and received no response he fired his shotgun in the direction of the disturbance. Chun subsequently called police who following a search of the area discovered Ax suffering from gunshot wounds to the chest. He was D.O.A. at Southern Regional Hospital. Chun has been detained pending further investigation.